Archive for May, 2009
Unoccupied, foreclosed homes would be defenseless in a storm; there will be no one to put up shutters, batten down garage doors and otherwise secure homes.
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Greenpoint, a traditionally Polish neighborhood in Brooklyn, is attracting younger residents and families with its lower prices, large parks, and growing restaurant scene.
Looking for a mortgage that exceeds $729,750? Not long ago, you would have been charged about 8 percent interest on a loan that large — if you could find a lender willing to grant you one. Now, rates on these “jumbo” loans are much more affordable, having settled in the low 6 percent range, on a…
For as long as Joyce Jones and her partner Floyd Brown have lived in their Capitol Hill rowhouse, they have talked about needing more space. Seventeen years and many buckets of dirt later, they are going to get it.
When Spring Valley was young, the Northwest neighborhood was considered on the outskirts of Washington. But that didn’t mean it was far from everything — it had a Garfinckel’s.
